WHILE PULLING BOLTS OUT OF A PIVOT SHAFT ON A D10N, THE BOLT GAVE WAY TOO SOON AND EMPLOYEE HYPEREXTENDED HIS LEFT ARM.
No 1 Surface: 13 reportable incidents Coal
MSHA record for No 1 Surface (mine ID 4607166). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 13
- Years on record
- 1987–1996
- Latest incident
- Jun 1996
- Anchor Mining Inc 1986 to present
No 1 Surface sits in Mingo County, West Virginia, where the Census mining category is 15.0% of county employment.
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.Reportable incidents
13 on file1996 · 1 incident
1994 · 1 incident
AFTER INVESTIGATION INJURED APPARENTLY STEPPED INTO PATH OF BACKHOE AS IT WAS SWINGING TO PICK UP MATERIAL TO PALCE IN DRAINAGE DITCH.
1993 · 4 incidents
EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHILE CHANGING UNDER CARRIAGE OF DOZER DUE TO LIFTING. NOTE: EMPLOYEE BEGAN MISSING WORK 5-10-93.
EMPLOYEE WAS STARTING EQUIPMENT, GETTING PRESHIFT PREPARATION AND LEFT HAND WAS IN DOORWAY WHEN DOOR SHUT HITTING HIS HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING LOADED COAL TRUCK DOWN MINE ACCESS ROAD WHILE PASSING AN EMPTY COAL TRUCK DRIVING TOO CLOSE TO BERM AND SOFT ROAD GAVE WAY CAUSING TRUCK TO TURN OVER (WEATHER WAS RAINING AND ROAD SOFT).
EE WAS BEING LOADED WITH ROCK APPROX. SIZE 12X4X3 WHICH WAS 2ND BUCKET LOAD BY ENDLOADER WHEN EE RADIOED LOADER OPERATOR THAT HE HAD BUSTED HIS SPLEEN LOADER OPERATOR STATED THE TRUCK WAS NOT SHOOK BY ROCK OUT OF THE ORDINARY. EXAMINTION OFROOM SHOWED EXISTING PROSTIATE PROBLEMS AND WAS DETERMINED BY THE DR NOT TO BE AS RESULT OF INCIDENT WV STATE INSPECTOUR INVESTIGATION.
1991 · 2 incidents
WIRING SHOT IN DEEP MUDDY WATER. STEPPED IN NINTH (9) BOREHOLE, FALLING BACKWARDS, RESULTING IN SPRAINED LEFT TOES AND RIGHT KNEE.
EMPLOYEE JUMPED OFF COMPANY TRUCK AND TWISTED ANKLE. BROKE BONE INF OOT. LEFT WORK FOR TWO WEEKS WAS NOT RELEASED BY DOCTOR SO WAS OFF ADDITIONAL 4 WEEKS.
1990 · 2 incidents
STEERING TURNED SUDDENLY WHEN TRUCK HIT A HOLE IN ROAD AND DRIVER HAD HIS HAND INSIDE WHEEL. FRACTURED DRIVER'S RIGHT HAND.
OPERATOR STATED WHEN HE MOUNTED ON TOP OF LOADER, HE SLIPPED ON SNOW AND ICE AND FELL INTO HAND RAIL AND HURT HIS SIDE.
1987 · 3 incidents
STEP DOWN OFF D2ZER TO CHECK OIL FOOT SLIP HIT SHOULDER AGAINST SIDE OF DOZER.
WORKING SHOT RO7K & BACKED OVER ABOUT A 4 FOOT EMBANKMENT RESULTING IN LOWER BACK PAIN
HE HAD LEANED O5ER AT THE REAR OF THE BULLDOZER WHEN HE LOST HIS FOOTING FALLING ON THE RIPPER OF THE MACHINE INJURY RESULTING TO SHOULDER